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...cork industry has been scrambling to pick up the pieces. Amorim, the world's largest cork-stopper producer, based in Portugal, where more than 30% of the world's cork is grown, has invested $58 million in improving its operations since 2000. But there are more than 600 cork producers in Portugal alone, and quality control is a challenge. "My enemy is not an [aluminum] wine-stopper," says Carlos de Jesus, Amorim's marketing and communications director. "My problem is a cork stopper that ends up at your table tomorrow and it could stink. The guy making bad quality stoppers...
...unique potential as a stable, modernized and religiously tolerant secular state in a volatile region threatened by Islamic extremism. For 16 years, Nazarbayev has been using unlimited powers to vigorously pursue liberal economic reforms and achieve economic stability - much at the expense of political freedoms. However, the regime has grown too rigid and politically bottlenecked to ensure long-term stability and further growth. Both Kazakhstan and Western politicians have long been emphasizing the need for democratic political reform to keep Kazakhstan on a steady course...
More than 30 years later, some of those dive bums have grown up to become full-fledged coral ecologists, and what they are seeing today is probably making them long for the halcyon days of the '60s. Rising ocean temperatures, compounded by other man-made factors, like pollution and overfishing, have been catastrophic for the earth's coral. "I grew up diving and snorkeling all over the world," says Gregor Hodgson, executive director of the coral monitoring organization Reef Check Foundation. "Those reefs are all gone...
Whether he likes it or not, that fortune is bound to attract attention. DLF is, after all, the hottest property developer in one of the hottest markets in the world. India's economy has grown more than 8% a year for the past four years, boosting demand for houses, offices, megamalls and hotels. Land prices in some areas have tripled in value since 2004, while office rents in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and New Delhi are now more expensive than those in Paris, Hong Kong or midtown Manhattan. Yet the boom may still have room. Merrill Lynch forecasts India's property...
...Latinos have become the state's largest minority, making up 3.7% of the population in 2005. Banking, restaurant menus and even voter registration cards are now offered in Spanish, but Hispanics' emergence has not been without friction. Over the years Iowans have grown fearful that the immigrants brought in by the state's hog farms and hospitality industry are dragging down their minimum wages and taking jobs they might want, said Paula Martinez, who sits on the Iowa Democratic Central Committee. And the immigration debate, in turn, has helped make the Hispanic community "incredibly" active, according to Armando Villareal, administrator...